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Master in Entertainment Law: Audiovisual, music, sports and entertainment industry

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D. Óscar Palet Santandreu
D. Francisco E. Giménez Merchante
D. Jesús M. Coca López

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Entertainment moves the world; law makes it possible.

ISDE’s Master in Entertainment Law is designed to educate the professionals who will lead legal advisory work in the most dynamic and creative industries: audiovisual, music, sports, and live entertainment. This pioneering program prepares you to master the legal frameworks governing intellectual property, talent agreements, rights exploitation, the regulation of digital platforms, and new business models linked to video games, eSports, and streaming.

With a strongly hands-on approach and a faculty made up of practicing lawyers, producers, and industry experts from leading companies and specialized law firms, you will acquire the tools needed to advise on deal negotiation, image rights management, event organization, and content protection. In addition, the program covers highly topical issues such as influencer regulation, content monetization on social media, and dispute resolution in the entertainment sector. Are you ready to become the legal advisor that stars, production companies, and platforms need to protect and amplify their success?

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Introduction and objectives

There is an immense industry, of which practically all of us are consumers and whose growth is exponential. We are talking about the entertainment industry. Why continue as a spectator when you can participate, be a protagonist and contribute to creating what you are passionate about?

The audiovisual, sports, video game, music and entertainment industry markets are undergoing a profound technological transformation that requires specialized professionals and lawyers who can function in an environment in which the artistic and creative are combined with the legal and business.

The Master’s Degree in Entertainment Law: Audiovisual, Music, Sports and Entertainment Industry offers a solid and comprehensive training base, for those who want to develop their career in the world of television, sports, audiovisual and music production, technology companies with business development on the Internet, the video game industry, the performing arts, the promotion and development of sporting events, concerts, festivals, shows, and musical tours.

Its teaching staff comes from the most prestigious law firms and specialists from the main companies and institutions in the audiovisual, music, sports and video game industries. It is these firms and companies that open their doors to students so that, through the internship phase, they begin their professional career in this exciting world.

Structure, location and calendar

First phase: Classroom Instruction:

  • One academic semester
  • Classes from Monday to Thursday in the afternoon. A few mornings a week, students will attend conferences and practical sessions at ISDE collaborating offices and institutions.
  • The program includes an academic stay at the University of Miami.

 

Second phase: Integration in practices:

  • Mandatory phase. Between 3 to 6 months in law firms or legal departments of ISDE collaborating large companies, as well as institutions, organizations and sports clubs (more than 300) nationally and internationally

Career Opportunities

  • Law firms.
  • Entertainment platforms.
  • Sports institutions.
  • Sport clubs.
  • Video game companies.
  • Event organization.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM

Module I. Introduction to the legal foundations common to Entertainment Law: Audiovisual, Musical, Sports and Entertainment Industry.

  1. Intellectual Property: The work, the author, the performing artists, producers and publishers. Athletes and sports entities. Moral and patrimonial rights. Licenses and types of contract.
  2. Comparison of common law and continental European law: author’s right versus copyright.
  3. Industrial Property: Distinctive signs, protection of artistic names, characters and television formats, patents, trademarks, design, know-how, technical and commercial secrets. Sports sponsorship.
  4. Competition Law.
  5. Advertising Law.
  6. Introduction to “Contract Drafting”.

Module II. Public and private organizations and institutions linked to Entertainment Law.

  1. Study of representative public and private institutions at the national and international level linked to the entertainment law industries.
  2. Trade union organizations, unions, and national and international Intellectual Property Rights Management Entities (CMOs).
  3. The Academies of Film, Television and Performing Arts.
  4. The Spanish Association of Producers and Distributors of Video Games and Entertainment Software.
  5. La Liga, FIFA, The Spanish Olympic Committee.

Module III. Law of the Audiovisual, Musical and Sports Industry (I): Legal analysis of the pre-production, production and post-production of works, other types of creative and sports content.

  1. Pre-production: Intellectual property and other legislation applicable to the elements that make up audiovisual, musical and sports content. Study of the registration and protection of formats, license management and other legal aspects of pre-production.
  2. Production: Technical and organizational aspects. Intellectual and industrial property, labor and social security regulations, tax regime, contractual and corporate law corresponding to the audiovisual, musical and sports industries. Sports competition: business models and compendium of contractual relationships. List of means of financing. Study of mutual guarantee companies, economic interest groups (AIE) and other financing structures for audiovisual productions. Legal regime applicable to international co-productions and the filming of foreign productions in Spain.
  3. The integral management of the activity of the musical artist: The Contracts of representation 360. The role of the representation agencies.
  4. Postproduction: Technical and organizational aspects. Intellectual property and other legislation applicable to the edition and final assembly of the work. Study of user-generated content and derivative works.
  5. Contract violations and effective judicial protection. Analysis of typical conflicts and jurisprudence.

Module IV. Audiovisual, Music and Sports Industry Law (II): Legal analysis of the distribution, export, marketing and secondary use of works and other creative and sports content. Study of the markets.

  1. Exploitation of audiovisual and musical works: Study of typology of distribution contracts and, in general, marketing of works and content. Internships in the audiovisual and music sector.
  2. Public domain and the use of free licenses in the audiovisual and music industry, Copyleft and creative commons licenses.
  3. Export and internationalization of content: Analysis of the legislation applicable to the internationalization of audiovisual and musical content, incentive regime, public and private aid.
  4. Audiovisual and music markets: Study of business models. Analysis of the operation and regulatory regime of the open and pay television markets, of cinematographic exhibition halls, of passenger transport and establishments open to the public and festivals, of radio stations and in the radio-formula format, the sale and distribution of recorded music and fixed on media and music in the audiovisual.
  5. The exploitation of sports competitions in the Media: Audiovisual rights applicable to football and other sports.
  6. The legal regime of indicators and measurement systems of commercial exploitation in audiovisual markets. Analysis of the business models of data providers, audiences and box offices. KANTAR MEDIA and COMSCORE.
  7. Collective management of intellectual property rights.
  8. Regulatory scope and the role of the National Commission of Markets and Competition.
  9. Piracy in the exploitation of creative and sports content.
  10. Judicial protection in the exploitation phase

Module V. Law of the Audiovisual, Musical and Sports Industry (III): Legal regime and business models of OTT services. Analysis of the new horizons of production and exploitation of audiovisual content in the digital environment. Other forms of exploitation.

  1. OTT services and the provision of audiovisual content on digital internet platforms and social networks (NETFLIX, HBO, SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE and FACEBOOK). Study of business models and the singularities of their legal regime in contracting and other practices in the sector.
  2. Comparative analysis of the regulatory framework of intellectual property rights in OTT services and social networks. The cross-border management of licenses and remuneration rights in the digital environment.
  3. Image exploitation contracts in new business models in social networks. Legal analysis of the figure of the influencer and its different business models.
  4. The “Performance Capture” and Artificial Intelligence applied to audiovisual. Legal analysis of the substitution of interpreters and the “Deep fakes”.
  5. New horizons for the exploitation of creative and sports content: The Metaverse and NFTs.
  6. Other forms of exploitation: Merchandising based on creative and sports content. The game and the bets.
  7. Contract violation and judicial protection.

Module VI. Advertising Law.

  1. Comparative analysis of the regulatory framework of advertising content. The cross-border management of licenses and temporary extension of the use of commercial spots.
  2. Business models in the advertising sector, audiovisual media and the digital environment. Analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  3. The regulatory function in advertising. AUTOCONTROL.
  4. Advertising and intellectual property rights.

Module VII. Video Game Law.

  1. The legal regime of the video game. Legal architecture of the elements that make up the video game.
  2. The pre-production, production and post-production of video games. Contract models and real cases.
  3. Legal regime for the distribution, export, commercialization of the video game. Business models and cross-border license management. Real cases and contract drafting.
  4. Analysis of the new business models linked to the exploitation of the video game: The public communication of game games on the Internet GAMEPLAYS and E-Sports. The figure of the Gamer. The sports and video game industry, business model.
  5. Video games and intellectual property. Authorship analysis. The accrual of intellectual property rights in the exploitation of the video game.
  6. Comparative law and the regulatory horizon of the video game.
  7. Scheme of the best legal practices in contractual matters in the field of video games.

Module VIII. Entertainment Law (I): Performing Arts, Concerts and Sports Competitions as public shows: Regulation and legal analysis of the planning, contracting, production, promotion and execution or exploitation of musical and theatrical stage productions.

  1. Regulation of the performing arts, concerts and other musical shows.
  2. Sports competitions as public spectacles: National and international regulation.
  3. Hiring and production or assembly: Compendium of contractual relations. Analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  4. Promotion and ticketing: Industry practices Real cases and contract drafting.
  5. Execution or Exploitation: Intellectual property and other legislation applicable to the premiere, gigs, and development of tours of theatrical and musical productions. Civil liability and administrative regulations.
  6. The collective management of intellectual property rights in the Performing Arts, Concerts and Sports Shows.

Module IX. Show Law (II): Legal regime and legal and contractual specificities of the different types of artistic and sports shows.

  • Musical artist tours: Detailed study, analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  • Music festivals: Detailed study, analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  • Theatrical productions: Detailed study, analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  • Bullfighting: Detailed study, analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  • Soccer and other sporting events: Detailed study, analysis of real cases and contract drafting.
  • The circus and other live events.
  • Contract violation and judicial protection.

FACULTY

  • ABEL MARTÍN VILLAREJO — General Director of AISGE and Fundación AISGE. PhD in Law. Professor at UCM.
  • ADELA CABALLDO SAYAGO — HR Director at MONTERO ARAMBURU.
  • ALEJANDRO DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ — Senior Associate in TM, IP and Media at ECIJA.
  • ALESSIA SIMONATO — FOURLAW Abogados.
  • ALEXANDER GUEDE — Senior Legal Counsel & Business Affairs at GRUPO MEDIAPRO.
  • ALFONSO GONZÁLEZ GONZALO — Partner at BERCOVITZ & CARVAJAL.
  • ALICIA MADIO — Associate in IP and IT at PÉREZ-LLORCA.
  • ALMUDENA SANTA EUFEMIA DELGADO — Head of Legal at BUENDÍA Estudios.
  • ÁLVARO DÍEZ ALFONSO — Legal & Business Affairs at SOMOS MÚSICA.
  • ÁLVARO MARTÍNEZ CRESPO — Head of Legal Department at TELEFÓNICA.
  • ÁNGEL CHAVARRÍA GOMERO — Senior Lawyer at SENN FERRERO ASOCIADOS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT.
  • BEATRIZ SÁNCHEZ EGUIBAR — Director of the Legal Department at AGEDI.
  • BELEN ÁLVAREZ CABRERA — Partner. Lawyer specializing in Cultural Law and IP at GABEIRAS & ASOCIADOS.
  • BELÉN ÁLVAREZ CABRERA — Partner. Lawyer and Director of the Cultural Law Department at GABEIRAS & ASOCIADOS.
  • CARLOS LÓPEZ MARTÍN DE BLAS — Secretary General and Director of the Legal Department at SECUOYA.
  • CARLOS OSUNA HERNÁNDEZ — DAZN.
  • CARLOTA NAVARRETE — General Director of COALICIÓN DE CREADORES.
  • CHARO FERNANDO — Deputy General Director at AUTOCONTROL.
  • CLARA RUIPÉREZ DE AZCÁRATE — Director of Legal Strategy for Content and General Secretary of the Board of Directors at TELEFÓNICA.
  • DANIEL GONZÁLEZ POLO — Tax Director and Lawyer at Nexticalaw&Tax.
  • DANIELA BOSÉ — General Director of Palacio Vistalegre.
  • DAVID SERAS PEREIRA — Licensing & International Manager at UNISON.
  • DÉBORA VELASCO MÉNDEZ — Legal Counsel at LAST TOUR.
  • DOLORES PIQUERO — Director of the Legal Department at PRISA MEDIA.
  • ELISA GUTIÉRREZ GARCÍA — PhD in Law and Degree in Audiovisual Communication. Professor at UCM.
  • ESTELA CABRERA MEDINA — Legal & Business Affairs at UNIVERSAL MUSIC SPAIN.
  • FRANCISCO GIMÉNEZ MERCHANTE — Lawyer, Director of Members and Rights Distribution at AISGE.
  • FRANCISCO JOSÉ ASENSI VIANA — Advisor specializing in the audiovisual industry and digital content.
  • GABRIELLA ZARA ROZALÉN — Legal & Business Affairs Manager at WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC.
  • GIUSEPPE DI BELLA — YOU PLANET GROUP.
  • GONZALO SANTOS — Head of Legal Spain at AMAZON STUDIOS.
  • HELENA SUÁREZ JAQUETI — Managing Partner, IP and Audiovisual Law at ECIJA.
  • HERMINIA LÓPEZ COLMENAREJO — Partner. Director of the Legal Area at LÓPEZ COLMENAREJO.
  • IBAN DIEZ — Managing Partner at MENTA ABOGADOS.
  • INMACULADA HERNÁNDEZ SANDOVAL — Director of Legal Department at VENTANILLA ÚNICA DIGITAL.
  • ISABEL MARISCAL — Managing Partner at SINGULAR LAW.
  • JAVIER BERMÚDEZ DE CASTRO BERBEL — THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY.
  • JESÚS CIMARRO — Director of PENTACIÓN and the Mérida Classical Theatre Festival.
  • JESÚS MANUEL COCA LÓPEZ — Lawyer at MONTERO ARAMBURU.
  • JESÚS MORALES SÁNCHEZ — Film Office at MADRID CITY COUNCIL.
  • JOAQUÍN MUÑOZ RODRÍGUEZ — Managing Partner, Privacy & Data Protection at BIRD & BIRD.
  • JORGE SÁNCHEZ SOMOLINOS — Manager of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts.
  • JOSÉ IGNACIO SALDARRIAGA — Partner in Corporate M&A, Media & Entertainment at EJASO.
  • JOSÉ MANUEL GÓMEZ BRAVO — Director of Legal Affairs for Rights and Relations with Cultural Industries at PRISA MEDIA.
  • JOSÉ MARÍA MONTES RELANZÓN — Managing Partner at CMC Copyright Management Consulting.
  • JUAN IGNACIO FERNÁNDEZ DE LA TORRE — Partner at API Asesores.
  • Mª ÁNGELES CARMONA — Senior Associate, Media & Entertainment Area at EJASO.
  • MABEL KLIMT YUSTI — Managing Partner at ELZABURU.
  • MAGALI DELHAYE — Senior Lawyer at AMC NETWORKS.
  • MANUEL BALSERA — Independent advisor and consultant. Former General Director of AMC Networks Southern Europe and Executive VP of AMC Networks International.
  • MARCO MARISCAL — PhD in Law. Professor at UAH. Lawyer in the Litigation Department at AISGE.
  • MARÍA ASUNCIÓN MARTÍN DE LOS RÍOS ALARCÓN — Commercial Director at FIFTY5 BLUE.
  • MARÍA DEL CARMEN HEREDIA GARCÍA — Director of Business & Legal Affairs for Spain and Portugal at NETFLIX.
  • MARÍA JOSÉ HUERTAS JIMÉNEZ — Director and Co-founder of The Lighthouse Team and Innovation Director at SONQO.
  • MARTA MARTÍN GARCÍA — Advertising and Metadata at MOVISTAR+.
  • MARTA MARTÍN GARCÍA — Advertising and Metadata at MOVISTAR+.
  • MARTA NADAL CEBRIÁN — Director of Legal Services at SGAE.
  • MERCEDES MORÁN — Lawyer. Expert in Digital and Entertainment Law at CEDRO.
  • MIGUEL MATORELL — Managing Director Southern Europe at ALTAFONTE.
  • NATALIA TAMAMES GARCÍA-ARCOYEN — IP, Art & Culture Associate Lawyer at RAMÓN Y CAJAL ABOGADOS.
  • NATHALIE RODILLA — Senior Counsel at HBO MAX ESPAÑA.
  • NEREA SANJUAN — Managing Partner for Culture, Sports and Entertainment at ANDERSEN.
  • OCTAVIO DAPENA — Managing Director at EGEDA.
  • ÓSCAR GRAFFENHAIN DE CODES — General Director of the Spanish Basketball Federation.
  • OSCAR PALET SANTANDREU — Audiovisual Producer and Lawyer.
  • PATRICIA ARAGONESES — ARA MUSIC GROUP.
  • PATRICIA MARISCAL — Director of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Department at BARDAJÍ & HONRADO.
  • PATRICIA MARISCAL GARRIDO-FALLA — Director of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Department at BARDAJÍ & HONRADO.
  • PATRICIA MUÑOZ DE LA OLIVA — Creativity Director at SONQO.
  • PEDRO MARTÍN CEREZO — Director of the Audiovisual and Sports Area at CREA SGR.
  • PEDRO RIVAS PRIETO — Head of the National Area of the Legal Department at AIE Artistas Intérpretes y Ejecutantes.
  • RALPH SEEL — Deputy Director of the Legal Department at MEDIASET ESPAÑA.
  • RICARDO GÓMEZ BARREDA — CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo.
  • ROCIO MENA — GABEIRAS & ASOCIADOS.
  • ROMÁN GÓMEZ PONTI — Former Legal Director of FC Barcelona. Partner at LAGIS Abogados.
  • SARA ISABEL TORTOSA PALMA — Managing Partner at LA CHARTO.
  • TERESA GONZÁLEZ ERCORECA — PARAMOUNT.
  • ZAHARA MOLERO — Personal Income Tax Advisor at R. CONSULTORES.

ACCREDITED DEGREE

Once the relevant Program has concluded and ISDE has verified that the STUDENT has completed their work satisfactorily, the STUDENT will receive the corresponding Degree certificate for each PROGRAM.

In compliance with current legality and, specifically, as set forth in article 4.4 of decree 84/2004, it is noted that ISDE’s programs are professionally oriented and therefore, unless explicitly stated otherwise, they are courses that do not lead to the acquisition of a title with official value, but to that of a proprietary title from ISDE.

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  • The Master in Entertainment Law: Audiovisual, music, sports and entertainment industry at ISDE is for you if you want to work as a lawyer in television, film, music, video games, sport or events. It suits you if you are interested in a creative sector but want a solid legal foundation in intellectual property, talent contracts and the exploitation of rights.

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